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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 18h
Isn’t this sort of a Russell’s teapot?
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Is this an unusual deciding factor? Not that kind of political scientist, but my impression is that in America turnout is king and the actual % of the electorate that sways from one side or the other is small.
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think I had something similar going on, I would listen to Gamma Ray or Hammerfall and think “this is like really high energy rock music” because metal to me was a wall of discordant sound with a Cookie Monster wail.
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The danger I think is that as their weird coalition does hemorrhage fence-sitters and redeemables, there’s going to be that core left behind that will spend the rest of their lives completely insane.
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There was a persistent refusal to acknowledge that even with all his obvious flaws the fact that Mills got smoked is a serious indictment of her capability as a candidate. Getting Jackson out of this was the best of all possible worlds. Mills can retire knowing the race is in good hands.
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The Other David Harper @theotherdavidh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Tagline: "We aim for the stars, but sometimes we hit London."
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m open to Digger being a good movie, but nothing in the trailer I’ve probably seen a dozen times makes it seem smart, clever, or particularly self-aware. I was..fine with Don’t Look Up. And this wouldn’t be the first time a trailer pitch to a general audience effectively smeared a good film.
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I could see that working if you took it backwards, maybe. See what concessions he made to evil power and make the moment at the beginning feel gross in hindsight? I don’t know, I’m not a screenwriter but Hollywood hit me up I’ll give it a solid try
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Helen Keller thing is so weird to me. She died in 1968! Thats within living memory, people met her and could tell you about it today!
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I don’t know that you have an obvious POV character, which is where you might not be able to give this the Oppenheimer treatment.
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It’s gotta be the moon landing. I know that’s been given prior cinematic treatments but when I think of what to put up next to “split the atom and nearly ended the world”, “blasting beyond the confines of our own and discovering a new one” feels like a natural follow up.
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Material conditions up until the material conditions of your world require that you stop saying alienating, inflammatory shit that persuades no one if you want to advance your cause in a tangible sense.
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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
Starting a training course for the left that just consists of me saying "something can be morally compelling but still tactically foolish" again and again and again.
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Though I think there’s a good chance you’re right on balance, sometimes I think it could be better for the other people in the room to see pushback rather than let it that person dictate the conversation on their terms.
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Keith Stack-o'-lantern @keithstack.com · 04/10/2026
Curtis Sliwa with speech bubble coming out of him
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have a social event to attend but I can definitely get back to you later if you’d enjoy the conversation
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think your sample size might be a little constrained. Moreover, you set for yourself the bar of all human history tending towards increasing aristocracy. I just don’t think there’s a sufficiently tortured definition of aristocracy that gives us that kind of trajectory.
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yes by that definition the 1920s were more aristocratic than the 2020s
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No, I don’t think it is though? Maybe we’re defining aristocracy differently
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wouldn’t that suggest the world today is more aristocratic than 100 years ago, and 100 years prior to that?
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I mean how bad can it be - oh fuck
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Unsophisticated musing on this notion: mean sons of bitches can make a big empire, but it takes meaner sons of bitches to maintain a big empire
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don’t think I can tell anyone what they can or can’t do with their social media feed, but it does strike me as not ideal when someone goes to great lengths to construct an echo chamber. Maybe they’re getting their social tension elsewhere though, and Bluesky is purely to relax. Hard to say.
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You are a horse, horses cannot vote.
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s not impossible for me to believe there are people largely indifferent to their gender who would happily accommodate themselves to gendered expectations either way BUT it’s hard to square that same person also somehow having strong feelings about how someone else should relate to their gender.
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think you’re giving the original post a more charitable interpretation than it merits.
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nobody said you were.
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thought you could fight the time dragon except he keeps going back in time to uninstall mod dependencies on ur machine to reset the fight
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I can’t imagine you’d feel similarly about music or film. Art shapes people, that’s not controversial.
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Music vibecession
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
More worried about whatever the heck is going on with that dinosaur’s sword.
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Kyle Prahl @kyleprahl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Control Resonant.
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think whatever currents of non-genocidal Zionism may have existed are, at best, moribund. The Israeli right wing has been very successful at turning Israel into an all or nothing project.
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I went from AD&D to 4E and… I thought they were both fun 🫣 Somehow 5th ended up worse than both
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Most of the American Greens I knew are PSL now
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
never ask a liberal institutionalist how they reconcile their avowed theory of international relations with their deeply held belief that Russians are uniquely evil
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
join the revolution comrade we hate the elderly, video games, firefighters, cats and dogs, the sun and you specifically!
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Labour’s direction on trans issues has freaked people out, but the UK’s anti-trans landscape is pretty different than the US. Maybe this is naive, but I don’t think the Dems could get away with that kind of turn, nor do I think they want to, outside of maybe that increasingly feeble old guard.
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s fun to have positive social interactions on a website!
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This was hard. I’ve played a lot of games in retrospect.
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
That Wizardry game distorted my psyche
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sins of a Solar Empire mentioned 🎉
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The inability to live up to your own stringent standards is FUNNY and not an indictment of your soul
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
GM burnout is downstream from a player expectations problem
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Is there anything specific about this model that made it perform this way, or was it just possessed by a dark force?
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Least objectionable Israeli military operation of the last decade” may be a low bar.
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh I’m not expecting you to have a full policy proposal. There’s lots of places I’d like to get society that I don’t have a good roadmap for. With restricting the franchise though, I just worry that issue is an Achilles heel.
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Isn’t that the hard part though, designing parameters that ensures the voting class is enlightened and educated and not just wealthy?
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m often so sympathetic to the desired end goals of folks who just refuse to work within the material world we live in. You will not bend the arc of the universe in your favor by the sheer gravity of your pure heart and pure desires!
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the wizard @arkayn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I think the “real story” in your eyes hinges on anthropomorphism, in which case, yes, of course a deanthropomorphized rendition will not satisfy you.
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